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I would like to announce that my final edit of Babette is exactly 50% completed. In other news, some readers of this weblog may be aware that I also engage in political writing. If anyone is interested, I am providing … Continue reading →

I’d like to thank Angela Gardner, the managing editor of a website focusing on transgender issues, for publishing an article I wrote about Babette. You can check it out at TGFORUM. In other news, my final edit is about 30% … Continue reading →

Dr. Ellsworth in drag, early 1960s, Portland. Babette presents a complicated character in every regard and the political aspects of her sexuality are no exception. While she lived as closet transvestite her whole life and paved new ground, both … Continue reading →

I had hoped my next entry would be something along these lines: Babette is back from the copy editor and will appear in print June 18th! Sadly, this is not the case. My brilliant editor, Lane Browning, spent two weeks … Continue reading →

“A recent survey showed that about half of the young high school students believe that some super-authority should decide what is best for the people, and almost that many believe freedom of the press should be abolished. A third … Continue reading →

These last months have been especially exciting as a conclusion to the Babette project draws near. This last weekend I finished a final rewrite based on comments from many dedicated reviewers and the manuscript is now undergoing a thorough professional … Continue reading →

As the first update to this weblog in nearly five months, there is a good deal of writing progress to report. This last summer I brought my book proposal to the 2012 Willamette Writers Conference and met with unexpected success … Continue reading →

“But what about Germaine?” I ask, “did your mother survive the war?” “Ah, yes,” Babette muses, “now there was a woman, my mother. To answer your question, yes, she survived, though after the war as our family disintegrated, I lost … Continue reading →

A couple months following Babette’s death on February 16th, 2002, I organized a memorial dinner party. About sixteen friends came over and we feasted on a gigantic twenty pound turkey she bought months previously. This was the last time … Continue reading →

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh One of the first adventures I accompanied Babette on was a trip to Eastern Oregon where we spent a weekend at the old Rajneeshpuram site during the summer of 1999. The Oregonian recently published an interesting multi-part … Continue reading →